You can include roles from arbitrary paths by including the full path in
the role as follows:
roles:
- { role: /path/to/my/role }
- { role: /different/path/to/another/role }
etc.
When using the ansible-galaxy, it by default will save roles in the path
defined in your ansible.cfg by the variable "roles_path" (which defaults to
/etc/ansible/roles), however that is not used when the plabook looks up the
role.
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Jason Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Maybe there is already a setting for this and I am just missing it...
>
> With the ansible-playbook command line how do I specify the directory to
> use for the roles?
>
> Right now I have things set up sort of like follows:
>
> ourhosts.ini
> ourvariables.yml
> deploy_nyc.yml
> deploy_ams.yml
> deploy_sgp.yml
> roles/
> common/
> webtier/
> monitoring/
> fooapp/
>
> Inside each of our deploy_nyc.yml files we target different hosts with
> different roles etc. In order not to have to remember many of the details
> of each of the scripts we might turn around and have lots of these scripts.
> Eg
>
> deploy_blogsite_nyc.yml
> deploy_fullmonitoring_sgp.yml,
> etc.
>
> In that way we just tweak these scripts with the hosts and tags and roles
> etc we want... But to do this I would like to be able to have the structure:
>
> ourhosts.ini
> ourvariables.yml
> deploy/
> deploy_nyc.wml
> deploy_ams.yml
> deploy_sgp.yml
> roles/
> common/
> webtier/
> monitoring/
> fooapp/
>
> And then I would like to be able to open up a command line and go
> something like:
>
> cd deploy
> ansible-playbook --inventory-file="../outhosts.ini"
> --extra-vars="../ourvariables.yml" --roles-directory="../roles"
> deploy_nyc.yml
>
> but --roles-directory doesn't exist. Does some other thing exist to do
> this? If not is this a reasonable thing to add?
>
> Thanks!
> Jason
>
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